'Loves Hete' in the Prioress's Prologue and Tale
- Author / Editor
- Borroff, Marie.
'Loves Hete' in the Prioress's Prologue and Tale
- Published
- Robert R. Edwards and Stephen Spector, eds. The Olde Daunce: Love, Friendship, Sex, and Marriage in the Medieval World (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1991), pp. 229-35.
- Description
- Considers whether the Prioress was capable of "love celestial," examining her invocation to the Virgin Mary and suggesting that the heaviness of Mary's pregnancy is analogous to the Prioress's need to be delivered of her tale. In PrT, "affective piety" is preferred to intellectualism, and speech/song, love/hate are opposed.
- Alternative Title
- Olde Daunce: Love, Friendship, Sex, and Marriage in the Medieval World.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Prioress and Her Tale.